What is recorded here

Knockmaa’s buried chamber emerged only when men quarried the hill in 1902. They found a rectangular stone box holding an extended body and an Irish Vase, evidence that the seemingly ordinary cairn was a deliberate burial place. The chamber was then refit and hidden beneath the stones again. Much of the original mound is gone, but the chamber and its occupant remain recorded inside the hill.

On a low hill, 2km W of Knockmaa (see GA042-064002-). What survives today is a poorly preserved irregular cairn (D c. 15m, H c. 2.5m) much depleted by quarrying in the late 19th C. It was during quarrying in 1902, that a rectangular cist (E-W; L 2.2m, Wth 1.1m, H 1.1m) was discovered on S side of the cairn. It was drystone-built, had a floor slab, and a large capstone (L >2m). It contained an extended skeleton with the head to W. An Irish Vase stood at E end and a portion of another lay near the head. (Costello 1903, 9; 1905, 34-8; Waddell 1975, 14; 1990, 92) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

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